A Push for Higher Pay for Nonprofit Employees, and More: Wednesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
October 14, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Dan Pallotta, the author and former fund raiser, writes that the nonprofit field should stop playing up the “psychic benefits” of working in the sector and should instead find ways to pay its talent more competitive salaries on Free the Nonprofits.
- Jeff Brooks, the marketing consultant, offers strategies for fund raising during bad months on Future Fundraising Now.
- While the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s decision to hire Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel is a good first step, other cultural institutions in the city need to do more to develop a Latino audience, says Gregory Rodriguez, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
- President Obama should fulfill his campaign promise to prohibit churches and other religious groups that receive federal money from hiring employees based on religion, argues an editorial in The New York Times.
- Too many fund raisers have forgotten the importance of saying “thank you” to donors, writes Janet Levine, a fund-raising consultant, on her blog.
- Nathaniel Whittemore, director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, says on his Change.org blog that most people are interested in “investing in nonprofits” because they give to help other humans, not because they’re fired up about a particular institution. The blog post was inspired by a debate about Kiva, the microlending site. Timothy Ogden, editor-in-chief of the journal Philanthropy Action has a round-up of blog posts on that debate.
